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Report: Stu Sternberg to sell Tampa Bay Rays for $1.7 billion

Report: Stu Sternberg to sell Tampa Bay Rays for .7 billion

Jul 14, 2025, 06:21 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays owner Stu Sternberg has agreed in principle to a $1.7 billion deal to sell the franchise to a group led by a Florida-based developer Patrick Zalupski, according to a report from The Athletic. The deal is reportedly expected to be closed as early as September and will keep the franchise in …

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Waters to buy Becton unit in a $17.5 billion deal amid tariff pressures – Reuters

Waters to buy Becton unit in a $17.5 billion deal amid tariff pressures  Reuters Waters and BD’s Biosciences & Diagnostic Solutions Business to Combine, Creating a Life Science and Diagnostics Leader Focused on Regulated, High-Volume Testing  Becton Dickinson Becton Dickinson Biosciences & Diagnostics Unit to Merge With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal  The Wall Street Journal Why Waters Corporation (WAT) Stock Is …

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Trump to Unveil $70 Billion in AI and Energy Investments – Bloomberg

Trump to Unveil $70 Billion in AI and Energy Investments  Bloomberg Trump visit to CMU sparks student protests ahead of energy and AI summit  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette With Trump set to attend AI & energy summit, CMU professor worries climate issues will be lost  90.5 WESA Sneak peek: Trump, McCormick plan $70 billion in AI, energy announcements for Pennsylvania  Axios Can Pittsburgh’s Old Steel Mills …

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Becton Dickinson Unit to Combine With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal – The Wall Street Journal

Becton Dickinson Unit to Combine With Waters Corp. in $17.5 Billion Deal  The Wall Street Journal Becton to merge unit with Waters in $17.5 billion deal  Reuters Becton Dickinson gets its spinoff deal, but the stock is still falling  MarketWatch WAT Stock Alert: Halper Sadeh LLC Is Investigating Whether the Merger of Waters Corporation Is Fair to Shareholders  Business Wire Waters Corporation Stock Plunges …

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How Google Killed OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal Without an Acquisition

How Google Killed OpenAI’s  Billion Deal Without an Acquisition

Google just dealt OpenAI a major blow by scuttling a potential $3 billion deal, and in doing so, solidified a rising trend in Silicon Valley’s AI arms race: the “non-acquisition acquisition.” Google announced on July 11 that it poached key talent from the rapidly rising AI startup Windsurf, which until then had a reported $3 billion acquisition deal with OpenAI …

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest $2 billion in Musk’s xAI

Elon Musk’s SpaceX might invest  billion in Musk’s xAI

One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion in debt) that Morgan Stanley …

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Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition

Google hires Windsurf founders, derailing OpenAI’s  billion acquisition

In brief: The founders and top researchers of AI coding startup Windsurf have announced that they will join Google’s DeepMind team, effectively ending OpenAI’s $3 billion bid to purchase the company. Windsurf will remain independent as Google will not be taking a stake and its new licensing deal with the firm is non-exclusive. Sources told Bloomberg that Google agreed to …

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A $100 billion mystery is unfolding on tariffs and inflation and economists are cracking the case

A 0 billion mystery is unfolding on tariffs and inflation and economists are cracking the case

Since the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second term, when the president signaled a wholesale reimagining of the international trade system on a scale not seen in decades, mainstream economists have warned that prices would surge. The mantra, repeated by everyone from mainstream economists to factions of the GOP, has been clear: A tariff is a tax on consumers. …

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